Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-02-10

| PROF. DE LEON, the New York astro-o-
| ger, convicted of inducing young girls to
| go to Panama for immoral purposes, has
| been sentenced to fifteen years. imprison-
| meut at hard labor in Sing Sing.
| NORTHERN Pacific advices do not confirm
the reports of heavy losses of cattle
| among the mountain ranches in the North
west.
HENRY SCHWARTZ has been held without
bail as an accessory to the Rock Island
robbery and the murder of Express Mes
senger Nichols.
The large three-story warehouse of the
| Drummond Tobacco Company, at ST
| Louis, filled with stock valued at S250.OOO
| was destroyed by fire ON the night of
the Sd.
DAvITT and his bride were enthusiastic
| ally welcomed on their arrival at Dublin
on the Sd.
THE Russian public are sceptical as to
| the success of the negotiations regarding
Bulgaria.
BREsLAu, Long Island, is excited over
| the discovery of the murdered bodies of
an aged man and his young wife in
! house in the backwoods near that place.
TUE municipal authorities of Limerick,
Ireland have refused to celebrate the
| Queens jubilee.
r. F. kEACH, an old gentleman sixty
eight years of age, jumped from the roof
| of his boarding house in Washington, on
the Sd, and was picked up in the alley
dead. His skull was fractured and both
legs broken. Reach was discharged from
the Treasury Department last summer,
| and has been unable to obtain employment
since.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made where
by the Eastern and Western associations
OF sWindow-glass manufacturers will here
after act in unison.
OF the 1870 Italians engaged in the recent
battle near Massowah, it is said that not
more than fifty escaped.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has signed the
St Louis bridge bill.
CHANDLER j. WELLS, ex-Mayor of Buffa-
10. n. Y, died on the 4th.
HASTINGS, Neb., experienced a great fire
on the 4th, involving loss of 500, 600
THE Franco German war cloud is fast
disappearing, and the belief is growing
that the whole scare was the work of
bourse spectators.
a BLOCK of seven buildings was destroy
ed by fire at Hurley, Wis, on the 4th.
FOUR girls We're burned to death in a
school-house at St Monique, Province of
Quebec, on the 4th
hiss MARY STEWART was burned to
death at her home, near jefferson City,
Mo, on the 4th.
CHARLES TALBOT, the Memphis (Tenn.)
h otel' clerk, was captured in Kansas City,
Mo. on the 4th, and Fanny Davenport's
diamonds were recovered intact.
N the Italian Chamber of Deputies, on
the 18th, the credit of 100000 francs for
the sending of reinforcements to the Sou
dan was passed by vote of 81 to 12
j. FL. WRIGHT, of Missouri, has been
nominated to be Chief-Justice of the
Supreme Court of Arizona Territory
An obstruction placed on the track of
the Panhandle road, near Coshocton, O.,
on the 4th, derailed the limited express,
but no one was injured.
\ SENSATIONAL report comes from Wash
iT@ton to the effect that scheme is on
foot among the ultra-silver men to i'm
peach Secretary Manning.
The recent storm in the Canadian North
west is said to be the worst ever ex-
perienced in the history of the Canadian
Pacific railway.
UNITED STATES TREASURER JORDAN adj
mits that he is to be vice-president, and
Secretary Manning president of the West
ern National Bank of New York.
HARRY MCMUNN, the Cleveland fur rob-
Der, was rescued from two detectives on
the Cleveland < Pittsburg express train
near Ravenna, o., on the morning of the
4th, by five confederates, who shot the
officers several times, and dubbed them,
INJECTING probably fatal wounds.
WILLIAM CoMsTOCK, the oldest convict
in the Auburn On. W penitentiary, died
Oh the 4th. He was received at the prison
in ISIS on q life sentence for murder III
Madison County. He killed his father and
mother and cut out their hearts and ate
them.
FRANK MALLoS, an ex-convict, attempt
ed to murder Warden John Green, CT the
Kings County IN. " penitentiarv, and
Keeper John Hughes on NOStrauQ
avenue horse-car on the evening of the
4th.
FIVE coal firms along the Monongahela
river have conceded the demands of thier
employees and are now in operation.
There are indications that the executive
board Knights of Labor, which is eXamin-
ing the books of the coal operators,
will agree upon two and threc-fourths
cents. ''If this be true,' said one of the
representative miners on the 4th:
Il think the men could be induced to &C
cept it d compromise. But if the board
decides on two and half cents they will
not accept.